Perfect Servers on Amazon EC2

I was wondering if you could take some time to write some "Perfect Server" guides on Amazon's EC2 platform.

It would be great for us to deploy stable and secure servers on different AMIs. We could also use directions on how to setup these servers with and without S3, SimpleDB, Elastic Load Balancing, etc on Amazon.

Dunno... would be great. In my case I want to try Amazon but I don't even know which AMI to start with if any